Except of course, our Armed Forces are held in renown the world over. From Wordnik.com. [Five Go Camping In Hampshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
But I by service to my country have made My name renown'd in peace, and fear'd in war. From Wordnik.com. [Works; consisting of his plays, poems, and letters. With a sketch of his life, enl. from that written by Dr. Johnson] Reference
Richard Chai, brother of Eddy Chai who is a name renown in New York fashion scene with his influential East Village menswear boutique Odin. From Wordnik.com. [SLAMXHYPE] Reference
Lost in the prime of youth, in the opening of thy renown, is it thus that all which is good is to be martyrized by the enemies of Scotland?. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference
Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
Nimrod -- mentioned as eclipsing all his family in renown. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
King’s Minister, a calligrapher of renown, is dead, and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Why, if the nobility is based on renown, the renown is another's!. From Wordnik.com. [The Consolation of Philosophy] Reference
The concept was the idea of renown percussionist and recording artist Edgardo Cintron. From Wordnik.com. [Event Calendar] Reference
The word renown'd does not present the idea of a visible object to the mind, and is thence prosaic. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
But a vain, or perverse desire for renown, which is called vainglory, is wrong; desire of glory becomes perverse. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
One has received word renown for his performances, the other is a drunkard whose family wants nothing to do with him. From Wordnik.com. [NewMusicBox] Reference
First, I lay it down for an indubitable maxim, that in itself all posthumous renown, which is the only renown, is valueless. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference
If I have laboured hard and staked my all on this undertaking, it is for the love of that renown, which is the noblest recompense of man. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Salvini had already won a kind of renown in juvenile characters. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
Lovecraft enjoyed this kind of renown for decades as a cult author. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network] Reference
He wasn't here as long as many of them so he didn't accrue the kind of renown that some of the others did. From Wordnik.com. [Prison Break at Johnson's Island] Reference
On a related note, I find it so strange that I know have some sort of minor internet "renown" for being a Swamp Thing fan. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-16] Reference
Many artists, when they attain this kind of renown, tread water for years with an anodyne blend of greatest hits and crossover projects. From Wordnik.com. [Music review: Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott at the Kennedy Center] Reference
Who seeks a vain renown. From Wordnik.com. [Verse Memorials.] Reference
Some hero of renown is slain!. From Wordnik.com. [The Curieux. A Tribute to Valour] Reference
The noblest in renown, where all were brave. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent] Reference
The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. From Wordnik.com. [INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)] Reference
Why, if the nobility is based on renown, the renown is another’s!. From Wordnik.com. [Consolation of Philosophy] Reference
Before recruiting each hero you have to have enough "renown" to impress them in order to take on their respective quests. From Wordnik.com. [1UP RSS feed] Reference
They knew that if they had these cartoons, that was the one way that they could get some kind of renown, or cultural lift, or win prizes. From Wordnik.com. Reference
History lesson: Winning renown comes at an awful price. From Wordnik.com. [To The Shores Of Kuwait] Reference
From that start she and her band gathered national renown. From Wordnik.com. [Tift Merritt Performs in NPR's Studio 4A] Reference
In the mid-'80s, Hampton had been a figure of some renown. From Wordnik.com. [Macanudos On The Rocks] Reference
A man of national renown was always, until the end, their own. From Wordnik.com. [From Pekar to Callahan: Why a town's 'favorite son' cartoonist is good for the civic soul] Reference
He was a controversialist with larger goals than his own renown. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Gerson on William F. Buckley] Reference
He pours his emotions into his lyrics, renown for their sophistication and insight. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Sondheim on Sondheim, Collected Stories] Reference
Women's gymnastics have turned flexible little girls into figures of international renown. From Wordnik.com. [Bounds For Glory] Reference
Candidates like Bachmann and Angle owe their success and national renown to the Tea Party. From Wordnik.com. [The Bachmann-ization of American Politics] Reference
For an event that dishes out renown but once every four years, the boycott was devastating. From Wordnik.com. [For God And For Reebok] Reference
The Bookseller of Kabul propelled Åsne Seierstad to global literary renown – and then to court. From Wordnik.com. [Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'] Reference
Long Island has a long agricultural tradition with its ducks and potatoes gaining national renown. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Poses: Farm Stands of Long Island's North Fork] Reference
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